Who has never heard of pesticides? Their impact on health, on the environment, has never made so much noise.

Yet in our towns and villages, some are advancing.

Discreetly, local politicians, technicians, engineers, cooks stand up and take hold of the leverage of local action, in order to create relationships of collaboration with nature. They create municipal vegetable gardens, introduce organic food into school canteens, grow grass, test alternatives to pesticides, and thus advance the law which, in 2017, will prohibit them in public spaces.

Who has never heard of pesticides? Their impact on health, on the environment, has never made so much noise.

Yet in our towns and villages, some are advancing.

Discreetly, local politicians, technicians, engineers, cooks stand up and take hold of the leverage of local action, in order to create relationships of collaboration with nature. They create municipal vegetable gardens, introduce organic food into school canteens, grow grass, test alternatives to pesticides, and thus advance the law which, in 2017, will prohibit them in public spaces.

The dominoes are starting to fall. The evidence damning glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, the #world’s number one herbicide for #weed #control, has become too enormous to ignore.

While it won’t #kill you immediately as demonstrated by foolish Monsanto reps who have been known to drink Roundup in product demonstrations to convince unwitting farmers to use it, the long term effects to #health are nothing short of devastating. Infertility

Finally, governments around the world are starting to take action, with the Dutch Parliament in recent days voting to ban all glyphosate-based herbicides including Roundup, from the end of 2015 and beyond.

The dominoes are starting to fall. The evidence damning glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, the #world’s number one herbicide for #weed #control, has become too enormous to ignore.

While it won’t #kill you immediately as demonstrated by foolish Monsanto reps who have been known to drink Roundup in product demonstrations to convince unwitting farmers to use it, the long term effects to #health are nothing short of devastating. Infertility

Finally, governments around the world are starting to take action, with the Dutch Parliament in recent days voting to ban all glyphosate-based herbicides including Roundup, from the end of 2015 and beyond.

It may sound odd to think of cannabinoids – one of the primary constituents of marijuana – as a class of vitamins. This is especially true given the current climate surrounding the hot-button issue of the plant's legalization (or lack thereof, as the case may be). How could something that is il

Chances are, you received an allowance when you were a child. Perhaps you dutifully deposited those dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies into a savings account at your local bank. Or maybe you were taught to squirrel away a few bucks under your pillow, or bury it in a tin can in the back ya

This Infographic Shows How Only 10 Companies Own All The World’s Brands

In order to visually elucidate that point, Oxfam International created a comprehensive infographic that reveals the extensive reach of the “Big 10” food and beverage companies.

Obviously, the horrors extend far beyond our own shattered daydreams. Massive corporations squash entrepreneurial diversity and make it nearly impossible for startups and small businesses to compete.

According to Oxfam’s report, “The world’s largest food and beverage companies have a lot of power – but you have more. And because they’re not using theirs enough to help poor communities or the planet, you can use yours to change the way they do business.”